The 2024 Golden Rhyton Film Festival was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from December 13th to 19th. Specialising in Bulgarian documentary and animation, this 28th edition screened 53 films in competition and 19 in the Open Horizons selection. The jury – writer Radoslav Bimbalov, animation director/producer Dimitar Petrov, cinematographer and documentary film-maker Nikolay Stefanov, art history …
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BULGARIA / Iglika Triffonova’s “Kalunyo” starts production
Bulgarian director Iglika Triffonova has started production of her feature film Kalunyo. The first phase of filming was in November 2024, the second phase will continue between May and June 2025. Adapted from a best-selling Bulgarian novel by G. Bozhinov, the film revisits the book’s ethical and philosophical themes through a story set during the …
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BULGARIA / Nikolay Stefanov’s Making Friends with the Idea of a Fatherbegins production
Bulgarian director Nikolay Stefanov starts production on his documentary Making Friends with the Idea of a Father. In the film Stefanov seeks to reconcile his family with the past by investigating the unsolved murder of his father in 1994, just after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. In an interview with FNE, the director explains …
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BULGARIA / The distributor Alpha Violet buys the rights to “Windless”
Shortly before its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28th – July 6th), the rights to Pavel G. Vesnakov’s feature film Windless were bought by French distributor Alpha Violet. The film follows Kaloyan who, after the death of his father, returns to Bulgaria from Spain to sell the family apartment. Seemingly …
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ITALY / The 28th Cartoons on the Bay
The 28th Cartoons on the Bay was held from May 29th to June 2nd in Pescara. Cartoons on the Bay is the major Italian showcase for animation and for the children’s entertainment industry. Promoted by RAI and organized by RAI Com, the festival has been bringing Italian and international players together through a vast programme …
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SERBIA / Vladimir Tagić’s Yugo Florida starts post-production
Vladimir Tagić, known for two television series, Morning Changes Everything and Children of Evil, has begun post-production on his first feature film, Yugo Florida. Co-scripted with Milan Ramšak Marković, the scenario was inspired by the last seven months of Tagić’s father’s life. At first the film follows the monotonous routine of a night-shift worker on …
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BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA / CineLink Industry Days: chosen projects announced
The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the 11 projects selected for the co-production forum, CineLink Industry Days, which will be held from August 14th to 18th. This event is a commercial platform for audiovisual and cinema professionals from all over Europe. The aim is to showcase new talent and expand co-production possibilities in Europe and …
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